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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Meg and Pat say drove Monsewer half mad?
(a) His mother.
(b) His father.
(c) The treaty signed by some of the members of the IRA to end the fighting.
(d) His move to Ireland.

2. Of what is Pat afraid, regarding the IRA's cause?
(a) The will of the IRA is not strong enough.
(b) Their weapons are outdated.
(c) The British will not be able to overpower them.
(d) They will be too powerful.

3. When she is gone, what does Monsewer tell Pat?
(a) Two soldiers will be coming soon with a captured English soldier.
(b) The British are coming to imprison them.
(c) A captured Irish soldier is being brought to them.
(d) A man is coming to take over the boarding house.

4. What takes place suddenly in this story?
(a) Violence.
(b) Music.
(c) Violence, music, and humor.
(d) Gun shots.

5. About what does Pat sing?
(a) How he wonders what life is like outside of Ireland.
(b) How strong the IRA once was.
(c) How he wishes he were an Irishman.
(d) How wonderful the Brits are.

Short Answer Questions

1. Pat comes back in with Monsewer and Meg tells him what?

2. What bad pun does Teresa make?

3. What do they do when music comes on the radio?

4. As Pat comments on how pretty Teresa is, what does Meg say?

5. When the sailor shows a handful of notes, what do Meg and Pat comment?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the play end?

2. What news does Monsewer have for Pat?

3. How does Miss Gilchrist respond when the others angrily ask her about her name?

4. What happens when Mulleady asks about the shirts Meg was to have laundered?

5. What does Monsewer want to do with the Soldier? To what does this lead?

6. With what does Princess Grace enter?

7. What is this play about?

8. What does Mulleady think about the Polish sailor? What is Pat's response?

9. What takes place in the conversation between Teresa and the Soldier?

10. What does the Soldier do as he enters the scene?

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